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The speculation and the rumors that surrounded this event didn’t disappoint, game developers announced a large selection of games coming out closer to December as well as some new gadgets for the consoles themselves, which are hopefully going to enhance the games and the gaming experience furthermore.

Starting with Nintendo’s news, who announced a couple of exclusive games for themselves leaving fans excited as Super Mario Bros was announced, the classic Mario game, but with a 3D aspect to it, leaving the characters looking better then they have ever done before. Also announcing a second installment of Super Mario Galaxy, giving players’ new missions, tasks and goals as well as a promise of some fan favorites and power-ups as well as a first time ever chance to play as Yoshi within the game.

Nintendo also leading on from announcing Motion Plus not so long ago to Wii Fit Plus, giving the player much more controller over the objects and characters within the game, furthermore increasing the excitement of physical gaming which the Wii has started with Motion Controllers and Wii Fit.

Microsoft also made fairly thrilling announcements, with not only announcing the franchise returns of their best selling games such as Halo, coming out with an announcement for Halo ODST and a new Halo game called Halo Reach and Metroid fans will not be disappointed with the new Metroid, Metroid Other M announcement, bringing back what Metroid was so well know for. An announcement that some PlayStation fanboys didn’t take to heart was that Metal Gear Solid Rising was announced for the Xbox 360, as well as Crackdown 2.

But the most exciting announcement by Microsoft was the new controller system that they hope to release in the near future code named Project Natal, basically allowing the person playing the game to be the controller, without wearing any suit or hold controllers, simply standing in front of a camera and their movement being detected by a special camera, adding the cherry to the cake, it recognizes multiple people as individuals allowing multiplier gaming.

Sony, being the final keynote of the event came out with some great exclusives in the game market, announcing Gran Turismo 5 (not the prologue) continuing the much appreciated racing simulator franchise exclusive to the PlayStation. Also announcing a new game from Team Ico’s, who are responsible for such gaming marvels as Ico and Shadow of Colossus, came out with The Last Guardian, a similar style game as the previous two. Sony also gave a first public look of God of War 3 predicted to be out March 2010.
Sony also announced the much awaited PSP 2, or otherwise known as the PSP Go, which is not going to be a new range of consoles, but in fact be a redesign and improvement over the current PSP’s and will not contain a UMB drive, but will be based around downloadable content, leaving the question off, what to do with the already bought games?

Sony also following the crowd announced a new controller for the PlayStation 3, being based around the principle of Nintendo’s Motion Plus, using the PlayStation’s EyeToy to detect the players movements, who will also be holding a “wand” controller, giving the player pin point accurate controllers over the objects in the game, and was demonstrated in real time during the keynote.

Of course not over seeing some of the other games that were announced during the event, like Assassins Creed 2 from Ubisoft, the sequel of the much loved first game, being based on the same concept of an assassin, but changing the scenery and time period.

Alan Wake was also announced a new game to the market made by Remedy Entertainment, the people that brought us Max Payne, which will brought to Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows.

Overall the event left people excited to say the least, about the upcoming developments in the gaming world, and personally, I can’t wait to try out some of the new control systems and games.

It was slightly disappointing that none of the manufacturers announced a price cut in the consoles and Sony didn’t say anything about the speculated PlayStation 3 Slimline.